cqlchess

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   by cqlchess 9y ago

   I wish I could find out specifically what went wrong with Visual Thought. Visual Thought was not an OS or some immensely complex distributed workflow product. It was a simple diagram editor. It just did its job very well (probably because i
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   by cqlchess 9y ago

   Think how many startups lose huge amounts of money for years and years. I just don't understand how a company could close when they had a reliable, well-done, popular, software product. I seem to recall they charged some reasonable amo
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   Ask HN: What happened to Visual Thought?

   2 points by cqlchess 9y ago|5 comments
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   by cqlchess 10y ago

   Chiang's "Understand" and "Story of Your Life" are two of the best stories ever written in my view. They evince a mastery of prose craftsmanship that's incredibly rare, combined with fascinating but logical plo
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   by cqlchess 10y ago

   I hate the way Gutenberg, and thus your site, mangles quotation marks and apostrophes.